Thats my favorite place to park at high tide. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] It has always amazed me how little respect some have for that river crossing.

Damm entertaining though. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Hey Karyn the neither link worked for me. Is there another???

 

Try the first one again... it should be working now!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Hey folks, I don't post much here, but I definitely want to visit Pismo sometime this summer. Please tell me the truck and hauler in the water was not someone trying to cross while it was flooding. If they were camped there that is one thing, but to try to cross as creek/river with a full rig in the sand is crazy.

Also for all you Pismo Historians, my grandfather will soon be interviewed for an upcoming issue of Sand Sports Magazine in their ongoing article "The History of Duning"

He began to go to the Imperial dunes @ 1955, him and 5 friends, they were the first recorded people to build purpose built sand rails in Southern California for the dunes and helped a little store in Glamis become the Mecca of sand duners around the country. (To give an example, Lynn Chenowth) got his idea for a tube frame from one my grandpop built in his garage)
They also traveled to Pismo prior to 1960 and have pictures of them drag racing their water pumper model A and T rails on the beach.
There are a number of pictures from that time that I will also try to scan for your website for historical purposes.

TPR

 

You know, I truly do feel for the family with the truck and toyhauler in the creek incident. However, one question truly comes to mind: "What were they thinking when they decided to attempt a crossing?"

 

Hard to say. They may have been seeing other people going through and fell into a hole. We've seen that happen before. Hopefully he was as "lucky" and no permanent nasty damage was done. I think you can even see the driver still behind the wheel in one of the pics. Apeears they were trying to leave.

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It looked like he was trying to leave to me. It happens almost everytime when the creek is really flooded. The wife and I love to sit and watch people there when we go to pismo. Some one will almost always bury some kind of vehicle, my favorites are the 2wd suv's. Still it is amazing what no thought process, combined with testosterone and 4WD can do. I feel sorry for the owners of that truck too, but that was just stupid. I always show up at low tide and if it looks shakey, let some one else go first. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] I have even walked into it before and decided not to try. The ocean combined with that stream/river is extremely unforgiving.

Let us lnow what issue that is in TPR, that is really [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

 

I read at the oceanodunes.org website that the truck and trailer were totaled, the toys were saved though. Also it was stated that the driver was tell his wife just before they tried and cross a few words like shut up and get in the fn truck, what a real moron 1 to try and cross the creek and 2 to talk to a lady like. Too bad stupid is as stupid does......

 

Thanks Karyn it worked that time.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

MWQ, maybe he was the first idiot to try and cross[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img] Someone like that has no concept of respect for water can really do. And the sad part about Pismo[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] is, there are more idiots like him out there.